[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3219 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3219

To ensure full labor protections for graduate student workers, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 21, 2020

  Mr. Sanders introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure full labor protections for graduate student workers, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Respect Graduate Student Workers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that, pursuant to the definition of 
``employee'' in section 2 of the National Labor Relations Act (29 
U.S.C. 152)--
            (1) graduate student workers at colleges and universities 
        are employees and should be granted every right and 
        responsibility conferred to them under such Act; and
            (2) graduate student workers should not be excluded from 
        the definition of ``employee'' on the basis of an educational 
        relationship with an employer.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN RULEMAKING.

    The National Labor Relations Board shall not finalize or take any 
action to implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule entitled 
``Jurisdiction-Nonemployee Status of University and College Students 
Working in Connection With Their Studies'', as published in the Federal 
Register on September 23, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 49691), or promulgate, 
implement, administer, or enforce any similar rule.
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